Snow What! Let The Sandcastle Building Begin

So what if it is going to snow tomorrow! Find your other shovel and think summer and sandcastles.

Beginning April 1, master sandcastle builder Ed Jarrett and as many volunteers as he can muster will begin building what will hopefully be a Guinness World Record-breaking sand castle, the crux of a multi-charity fundraiser at Winding Trails in Farmington.

"It's going to take a lot of sand, a lot of people and a lot of hours but we will be victorious," said Jarrett who plans to beat his own standing Guinness record by constructing a 35-foot high sandcastle at the recreation facility.

Jarrett built a Guinness World record breaking 31-foot-high sandcastle in Maine several years ago but since relocating to Connecticut wants to break it again, Nutmeg style.

Pledges are being collected from volunteers as part of the project which will benefit several organizations including Save Walton Pond, Special Olympics Connecticut, Gifts of Love, New Horizons and UConn Children's Cancer Fund.

Volunteers will haul sand to the site where the castle is being built, and help hoist buckets of sand as the castle gets higher and higher. Participants' names will be submitted to Guinness as part of the project documentation.

Sponsors include Dunning Sand & Gravel, which is donating the sand for the project, Rich Wright Productions which is producing a documentary film on the project , Miner's Lumber , WardComm Public Relations, Sharon Mayock Graphic Design, Kostin, Ruffkess and the Farmington Field Club.